Who is Dr. Kang?

[dog]

Yes dear ! https://www.meshmedicaldevicenewsdesk.com/one-week-from-hernia-surgery-to-swimming-in-hawaii/ You will never find docter with care like dr Brown.

[Mastropietro]

Do you have first-hand experience with Dr. Brown, Dog?

[dog]

kaspa Dear it is very simple to find surgeon who does pure tissue repairs ..do you read my posts? You can call dr Brown now on his cell phone and get it done in a few days https://www.yelp.com/biz/william-brown-md-fremont

[kaspa]

Dr Kang, when I decide to have a repair, I won’t be a mesh for sure. You’re absolutely right about pure tissue repair against mesh repair: Better a relapse than mesh complications. Unfortunately, it’s hard to arrange for a surgeon who does pure tissue repairs these days.

I really appreciate pioneering work like yours and hope that you’ll publish your repair soon so that it can have wide propagation throughout the world.

Thank you very much, [USER=”2019″]drkang[/USER] .

[drkang]

[USER=”2862″]kaspa[/USER] Sorry for the late reply.
Unfortunately, Gibbeum Hospital is the only clinic that administers our Kang repair. After I accumulate enough clinical data, I will announce the data on the result of Kang repair and disclose the surgery method. I hope you will find a good surgeon who will do the best surgery for you.

If there is one thing I can recommend for you is to choose the pure tissue repair, if possible. If I were to choose between tissue repair relapse and mesh complication, I would choose the relapse, because fixing the tissue repair relapse is much easier than taking care of mesh complication. Also, the relapse rate of mesh repair is much greater than you think. Also, if you make a right pure tissue repair method, the chance of relapse can be much lower than that of mesh repair.
Thank you.

[kaspa]

[USER=”2019″]drkang[/USER] it was very nice to hear from you and learning that you’re doing pioneering work in inguinal hernias with great success.

I liked very much your description on your site. I’d like very much considering surgery by you, but unfortunately I think I can’t afford it plus a long 18-hour trip (each side… and I really hate long trips).

Did you train any European surgeons you can name here? That would be great if so.

[dog]

Dear Dr Kang!

Thank you for contributing to this forum as a great expert! I love your style of politeness but you still making your point.

Thank YOU!

If i understood your correctly, you more prefer doctors who would do no mesh only..like You or Dr Brown who i like very much …distinctive No mesh activist. .Members please plug someone else you know ..i don’t ?

Well ..Yes doctor Yunis, use mesh as well. But he is also developing new approach with mesh with less side effects.

Regarding no mesh …Yes unlike You and dr Brown , Dr Yunis will use the only one metode” Shouldice ” but he will get it done it perfectly well .

! i spoke with a few of his patients ..they love it. and Great Feedback about his work also is all over the internet .

Dr. Yunis is former vascular surgeon ..he knows how to work around sensitive nerves saturated places { inguinal hernia} to get it done meticulously carefully.

. I influenced him to contact Prof. Desarda..i was very pleased that he is now about to offer Desarda method as well.

Dr Kang If your method would be available i know that he would consider it as well.

He also is very innovative and currently developing no mesh surgery with laparoscopic / robot only to get it done from inside. Our moderator Dr Towfigh also working toward that goal

I don’t know all details but believe me both of them are excellent and distinctive doctors.

Also out of curiosity you never ever seen a patients who you believe that it is just impossible to do no mesh ?
When dr. Kang drkang method will be published ?

[drkang]

Hi dog,

Thank you for asking for other doctor’s comment on my surgery method.

I fully understand Dr. Yunis’ position that he agrees with my thoughts in many part, but he tries to offer ‘the techniques that are validated by many other surgeons.’ Because a surgery is the only opportunity to cure a patient’s disease, surgeons must select their surgery methods very carefully, and Dr. Yunis must be thinking that the surgery method practiced by many other doctors is the safest.

However, if all doctors consider the surgery method practiced many other doctors is the best surgery method and stay satisfied with it, there would have been no development of surgery methods in various areas, as we have achieved today. When a new surgery method is practiced for the first time while there is a mainstream method, its start cannot help but being weak.

What is important is whether the currently practiced surgery method is so perfect that there is no need for further improvement. If so, the careful stance of Dr. Yunis is appropriate. I would do the same myself. However, if the current mainstream surgery method still has many problems that require imporvement, someone must try different things. As a matter of fact, many surgery methods have been developed through such processes.

I do not think that the current mesh inguial hernia repair is a perfect surgery method that require no further improvement. I am rather repulsed by the mesh method. That is why I thought a new surgery method had to be developed, and accomplished Kang repair one year ago after giving a lot of thoughts and efforts. Of course, a new surgery method must be validated over a certain time period. Thus, for the value of Kang repair to be fairly evaluated, it will take more time. However, when considered many elements, I anticipate that the good results observed so far will be successfully maintained when monitored over a long time.

[dog]

I appreciate and agree in many ways with Dr Kang’s approach.
Despite my independent thinking I have always tried to continue to offer techniques that are validated by many other surgeons.

Jonathan Yunis MD FACS

http://www.centerforherniarepair.com
941-953-5917

[Wjs06d]

Hi everyone. I would like to throw in my short and precise two cents on my own personal operation(inguinal right) with Dr. Kang.

I visited his hospita(on a Friday) due to research from the internet and many sources and was worried with the idea of a mesh situated inside of my body for eternity! Of course, surgery is not a walk in the park, so a person would do plenty of homework to find the best solution.

I met up with Stephen K, to help provide me with the English translations to communicate about my issue, fill out paperwork , and to KNOW what Im getting into. He is very polite and vital towards the whole procedure if your Korean is weak. He was there from the start to the finish.

After initial paperwork, I spoke to Dr. Kang to get his confirmation and the pre-op rundown. After the consultation, the usual routine of ultrasound/urinate in a cup/blood test/etc was done, I had to wait for the actual surgery.

The surgery took about 25 mins and i was awake the whole time. I made conversation with the doctors(including Dr. Kang) while the operation took place. The whole process seemed quicker than I thought and Im glad that it wasn’t too painful.

After surgery, I opted for a one night stay at their ward. It’s a hospital, not the Hilton, so dont expect cushy beds and mannered patients(I recommend getting a private room.) Meals were quite satisfactory, but difficult to eat because of posture(you were on the bed and bending down on a table connected to the bed).

The next day, I was discharged with medication and clear instructions on how to handle my body and went straight home on a 4 hour bus ride home. Did I feel sore? Not so much. I felt comfortable laying down on my own bed. Rested a lot and took it easy and immediately went to work on the following Monday.

I could walk, but at a slow rate for the first few days. I played it safe and didnt want to aggravate my situation. About 2 weeks after the operation, I could walk full speed.
Bending was somewhat inconvenient for a few days as well. After 2 weeks, I had NO problems.

Currently its been 6 weeks after my surgery and Im back living life!
I can drive fine, run and started to lift weights again. Do I experience any side effects? Absolutely ZERO.

So to sum it all up:
+Hospital is easy to access(in the city)
+Well organized hospital with an English translator to assist you
+Quick surgery
+Fast Recovery time
+Support from staff

-Terrible beds
-Many patients were there when I went(the hospital treats other problems as well.)

That’s all what I can remember. I hope my UNBIASED and FACTUAL personal experience can aid in your decision of getting treatment or answers some questions you may have. As always, please practice due diligence(Do your research) and If you would like to know any additional details, please don’t hesitate to post or send me a message!

[dog]

WOW!!! It is Amazing dr drkang like we say in America..don’t fix it until it is broken !
It also less stress on surrounding tissues..
Now..when you repairing what is broken ..do you use any specific method ..not simply stitching it..correct ? We understand that you pay attention to the GREAT level of details the way you stitch .according the video even the way you hold the stitching tool …How can you get a balance between durable stitching line {i see you make it thicker then others } and affoding complications with scarining..

[drkang]

Hi linzee,

I am glad to hear from you through your posting. It was my pleasure to administer the hernia repair for you. I hope you will completely recover from the surgery soon.

[USER=”2608″]dog[/USER] I do not repair the entire inguinal floor as most of the existing inguinal hernia repairs do. However, I do not repair the damaged part only. To be exact, deep inguinal ring is repaired in case of indirect inguinal hernia, and only Hesselbach triangle (but the entire Hesselbach triangle) is repaired in case of direct inguinal hernia. That is, I choose one of the two surgery methods (repairing only the deep inguinal ring and repairing the whole Hesselbach triangle) according to the type of the inguinal hernia.

[dog]

Dear Dr Kang and Stephen .Stephen .i looked on the video that linzee posted and thinking that Dr.Kang approach that give a few clues how Dr Kong performs the operation.
He implies that he just repairs the inguinal floor for direct hernias and repairs the
internal ring for indirect inguinal hernias… his approach to only repair
what is damaged…Please confirm ? .it means no specific method ?

[dog]

Dear drkang Dr Kang and Stephen ..i looked on the video that linzee posted and thinking that Dr.Kang approach that give a few clues how Dr Kong performs the operation.
He implies that he just repairs the inguinal floor for direct hernias and repairs the
internal ring for indirect inguinal hernias… his approach to only repair
what is damaged…Please confirm ? .it means no specific method ?

[Stephen]

Dear linzee and dog,

Thank you linzee for sharing your experience.

And dog, I just answer your question here. I just talked with Dr.kang: “

On another note ..i just curious if had chance to remove mesh from patience and what did you do after ..stitched them back without mesh immediately?” His answer is “YES.”

[Stephen]

D

ear linzee and dog,

I just talked with Dr.Kang during the lunch today. He expressed great thanks to linzee for the sharing and asked me to answer the following question of dog on behalf of himself : “On another note ..i just curious if had chance to remove mesh from patience and what did you do after ..stitched them back without mesh immediately?” His answer is “YES.” You guys can ask me ‘administrative’ questions regarding hernia repair in Korea by Dr.Kang

[linzee.1018]

Hi dog.
Apologies for slow reply, and initial confusion. There is only 1 link to a youtube video. What may look like a second link is just my clumsy way of referring back the first and only link. I thought the video was pretty good also. 🙂
Cheers, L..

[dog]

linzee.1018 Thank you so much!!!! Some of your links to you tube don’t work.. Could you please fix them:}

[Chaunce1234]

[USER=”2775″]linzee.1018[/USER] thanks for adding your experience with a non-mesh hernia repair procedure from Dr Kang, this is undoubtedly helpful information to other patients.

[linzee.1018]

Hi dog and Dr Kang,

I joined hernia talk yesterday. I had a Kang repair at Gipum Hospital 6 weeks ago, and thought writing up my experience of this might be helpful to some people in similar position I was in last year. I was wondering where on this site to post my description for anyone interested. By genuine coincidence dog, your last post looks to provide a good entry point, for what I had prepared. I hope I’m not seen as butting into a 2 way conversation.

My experience in going to Korea for a Kang repair.
7th January, 2019
My name is Lindsay, Australian, age in early 60’s. My contribution is for anyone with an inguinal hernia that is considering travelling for a mesh-free repair. I relate how I reviewed my options when in this position, ended choosing a Kang repair, and my experiences in following this through in Korea. My experience was very positive.
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Background
I had an indirect inguinal hernia for >10 years, which deteriorated quickly and needed to be fixed. My quickest option was a local mesh repair, which in my case was to be larger than average in scope, entailing an open operation and general anesthetic.
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I did some internet searches and noticed concerns with hernia mesh repairs. These included unpredictable adverse responses to mesh in some patients, and that significant pain was not uncommon after the repair. I also found reports that large hernias carry a higher than average possibility of recurrence, and higher probability of problems with mesh pain. From this, I sought only mesh-free repairs, but found only one clinic advertising this option in Australia.
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Non-mesh inguinal hernia repair options
I found “HerniaTalk” to be a good place to learn about non-mesh inguinal hernia repairs, and where they might be available. I encountered recent information mostly on Shouldice, Desarda and Kang repairs. I found a recent presentation by Dr. Kang that provided a very useful overview to inguinal hernia repair approaches – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOyeRYysj4 . Hence, the Kang repair for indirect inguinal hernia appeared to me to be most suited to my situation. This repair is available at Gipum Hospital in Seoul.
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The strengths I saw in a Kang Repair
___The repair is mesh-free, eliminating any mesh pain.
___The repair is tailored to the underlying basis of the hernia, and hence is minimally invasive in scope, with consequent benefits:- -smallest incision, -suited to local anesthetic and so safer for older patients, -least pain, -short in duration, -faster post repair recovery.
___For indirect inguinal hernia, due to the tissues used in the repair and the repair site, I gathered that the Kang repair is least affected by size of the hernia, additionally beneficial to my situation.
___Additionally, Dr. Kang is highly experienced and has refined his technique over >6000 operations (2013 to 2017).
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Further support for a Kang repair, that appealed to me
___Dr Kang’s credentials, professional affiliations and achievements, which appear at the start of his video reviewing inguinal hernia repairs – Youtube..link above
___Dr. Kang is Director of Gipum Hospital, which is a specialist hospital for hernia repair.
___Dr. Kang observed a low recurrence rate while refining his repair technique.
___Positive contributions on “HerniaTalk”, by overseas patients who had a Kang repair.
___Direct phone conversation with a former patient who had a Kang repair in 2017.
The above led me to feel confident that going to Korea for a Kang repair would be a safe decision for me. An additional advantage for Australians going to Korea, is Seoul is only 1 to 2 hours different from Australian time, so no jetlag.
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Experience at Gipum Hospital
___After contacting Stephen Kwon at Gipum Hospital, I could book a repair 4 weeks in advance (for November 19). A family member went with me for support.
___Despite Seoul being a very big city, an inexpensive express bus took us from the airport to the hospital vicinity (a frequent service). There are 2 comfortable hotels on the bus route, each within 10 minutes walk from Gipum hospital.
___Everything medical occurred from scratch on the day of the booking, from early admission to the afternoon repair. The hospital is well equipped, and busy, with a streamlined case-evaluation process; ultra-sound, medical tests and checks, then review by Dr Kang.
___As a non-Korean speaking overseas patient, I was guided through the medical process by Stephen Kwon. Stephen also interpreted where necessary. The people I most needed to interact with spoke English, while most other staff knew enough English words to let me know what was happening. The hospital staff were very friendly.
___Initially unsure, I needn’t have had any concerns with a local anesthetic for the repair. Patients are offered a sedative with the local, which left me pleasantly relaxed through the procedure. There were 6 or 7 repairs on the day of my visit. Older patients have an overnight stay for observation, with very comfortable private rooms available if required.
___I experienced very little pain. Extended pain control is offered for the second day, and then tablets for a couple more days. Some people prefer to limit the extended pain control, to better guard against inadvertent injury to the repair over the first few days.
___My repair went very well, incision was small 3.5cm, no bleeding or bruising, no infection, post-operative swelling wasn’t concerning, quickish recovery (full recovery strength is many months).
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After repair care
___It is suggested overseas patients arrive in Seoul a full day before the hospital, and take 4-6 days recovering before final review and flight home. I found this good advice.
___First 2 days post repair I took short walks inside the hotel, next 2 days longer walks outside. Patients advised they can tour around Seoul on days 5 and 6.
___We flew out of Korea on day 7, after the all-clear from Dr. Kang. I was back at work on day 10. For first few weeks precaution with coughing/sneezing, with lifting, and pushing stiff doors.
___Now its 6 weeks after the repair, tenderness around the incision has mostly gone. Everything is going well, no indication of any problem.
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I am very glad I went to Gipum Hospital for my repair, and experienced a good outcome that can come from a minimally invasive method and a very experienced surgeon. I very much enjoyed meeting Dr. Kang, and felt well cared for in his hospital. I had an enjoyable experience in Korea.
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All the best to those considering their repair options. Lindsay….